A new subclass of intrinsic aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferases, ANT(3")-II, is horizontally transferred among Acinetobacter spp. by homologous recombination

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Gang ^a   Leclercq, Sébastien Olivier ^a   Tian, Jingjing ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Yahara, Koji ^b   Ai, Guomin ^a   Liu, Shuangjiang ^a   Feng, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN 3''-ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER GYLLENBERGII; ACINETOBACTER PITTII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 85014121617     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006602     Document Type: Article

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